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Today — 17 September 2025Main stream

As an Activist, Robert Redford Understood the Power of Celebrity

16 September 2025 at 23:28
His knowledge of the ways cameras and media create narratives helped him redirect those stories in service of larger causes like environmentalism.

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Robert Redford in “The Candidate,” from 1972.
Yesterday — 16 September 2025Main stream

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89

17 September 2025 at 01:22
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

© Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Robert Redford in 2013. With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, he typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight.
Before yesterdayMain stream

What We Know About the Charlie Kirk Shooting and Suspect

Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth movement, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

© Kim Raff for The New York Times

The tent in which Charlie Kirk was sitting when he was fatally shot on Wednesday while giving a speech at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says

Gov. Spencer Cox said the suspect had been “radicalized” but did not go into specifics about the suspect’s views.

© Kim Raff for The New York Times

F.B.I. officials outside the home of the suspect’s parents in Washington, Utah, on Friday.
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